SEQUEL, the precursor to SQL, was explicitly intended for both professional programmers and infrequent database users

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"SEQUEL, the precursor to SQL, was explicitly intended for both professional programmers and infrequent database users"

IBM's original SEQUEL paper describes an English-keyword query language intended to serve both professional programmers and people who interacted with databases only occasionally.

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Source title Sequel: A struciured english query language

Source authors Donald D. Chamberlin; Raymond F. Boyce

Source year 1974

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